Review on Current Status of Waste Electric and Electronic Product in Malaysia

Abstract:

In the last years, there is an increasing acknowledgment of our impact on the environment due to our lifestyle, while the need to adopt a more sustainable approach as to our consumption habits emerges as of particular significance. This trend regards industrial sectors affecting the consumption habits and, especially, electronic industry where the short life cycles and the rapidly developing technology have led to increased e-waste volumes, such as discarded electronic equipment. Waste Electric and Electronic Product or E-waste is referred to all kind of electric and electronic equipments and appliances that is thrown by users. The majority of such elements result in landfills because it is inexpensive disposal option. The E-waste has become a matter of concern because of toxic and hazardous present in electronic goods and if not properly managed. This equipments are a complicated assembly of thousand material, many of which one highly toxic such as brominates substances, toxic gases, toxic metals, biologically active material, acids, plastics and plastics additives. However, their partial recyclability, due to their material composition along with the unavoidable restrictions in landfills, has led to the development of retrieval techniques for their recycling and re-use, highlighting the significance of e-waste recycling, not only from a waste management aspect but also from a valuable materials' retrieval aspect. This paper provides an overview of E-waste generation and management in Malaysia, which, with rapid economic growth and urbanization, is becoming a major social and environmental issue. Thus, major concern for E-waste management in Malaysia has addressed to environmental protection, compared to quantity control. The challenge now is to make the practice effectively in the many different contexts in Malaysia.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 773-774)
• Pages: 898-907
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.773-774.898
• Online since: July 2015
• Authors: Shafizan Jaibee, Abd Khalil Abd Rahim, Fariza Mohamad, Saifulnizan Jamian, Sia Chee Kiong, Yokoyama Seiji, Nik Hisyamudin Muhd Nor*
• Keywords: Electric Waste Management, Electronic Waste Management, E-Waste, Recycling

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